Unexpected diversity of chloroplast noncoding RNAs as revealed by deep sequencing of the arabidopsis transcriptome

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 559-570

  Hotto, Amber M ^a   Schmitz, Robert J ^b   Fei, Zhangjun ^a,c   Ecker, Joseph R ^b,d   Stern, David B ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c ROBERT W HOLLEY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Organelle; Plastid; Posttranscriptional regulation; RNA Seq; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869092510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.111.000752     Document Type: Article

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